Smallest FM Transmitter available

[juan_chiriboga]

here's a question for all you pocketpc gurus.
I am looking for the smallest FM transmitter available for pocket pcs. something like the Itrip for the IPod. if we look at the products from griffin Technologies, i am not sure why there isn't an FM transmitter of the size of the Total Remote Transmitter Module!!! any thoughts???

[The Yaz]

As far as I know, there are two companies that offer FM receiver capabilities for the PocketPC through a CF port.

http://www.ibizcorp.com/pocketradio.html

and

http://www.pdashop.nl/product/1843

but neither includes the am band.

Ibiz Corp also sells a SD radio card, but the drivers only support Palm.

Steve 8)

[juan_chiriboga]

I may have miscommunicated.... .an FM Transmitter is not the same as an FM received. The FM transmitter is also know as a FM Modulator. It allows you to broadcast your sounds, through any FM Radio station... so basically you would use it to play MP3s from your PDA in your car stereo... without the need of any wires.

[PPCRules]

I may have miscommunicated....
No, you communicated fine, but unless someone has dealt with these, they might not picture it correctly right off.

... not sure why there isn't ...
any thoughts???
I'm also not sure why there isn't. The market might not be considered huge, but they aren't likely selling a lot of the Total Remotes either.
(Actually, I would think these transmitters would have a huge market for MP3 players.) It must be that the batteries would become too much of size of the package, so not having it corded would be too unweildy.

My thoughts have been to make my own. A couple years ago, there was a circuit design in EDN magazine for a mono transmitter, which would be fine for my purposes. Just has a single IC. I envisioned a coin cell for power; I wouldn't be using it constantly.

[egads]

here's a question for all you pocketpc gurus.
I am looking for the smallest FM transmitter available for pocket pcs. something like the Itrip for the IPod. if we look at the products from griffin Technologies, i am not sure why there isn't an FM transmitter of the size of the Total Remote Transmitter Module!!! any thoughts???


The iRock 300/400W's are crap, don't waste you money. I would get it to work with a station and turn a corner and I'd have to move every thing around to get that station to come in again.

I've heard good things about the transmitter below. I've not tried it, but it looks small and can be tuned to the whole FM range, not 4 preset stations.

http://www.myfmstation.com/myfmstation/html/audiax.html

The same site also has the LineX portable. Looks good, but limited to 7 stattions on the 107Mhz area.

http://www.myfmstation.com/myfmstation/html/linex_portable.html

I live in the Chicago area and the FM sprectrum is pretty full up, I don't thing any transmitter will work good. A transmitter that sits before your antenna works well, but its not portable. See link for exanmple:

http://www.myfmstation.com/myfmstation/html/pll-1.html

Good luck...

[gry]

Besides the iTrip which doesn't work for the PPC, the smallest one I've seen is the Belkin F8V367-APL TuneCast Mobile FM Transmitter
http://www.teacher-1-stop.co.uk/cgi-bin/feed.cgi?input_item=B00008SB1D&input_search_type=AsinSearch

I think the iRock is the next smallest FM transmitter out with uses 2-AAA batteries.
http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/irock-review.html

I use the Arkon SoundFeeder SF100 that I've had since highschool and connected it with my tape player, cd player, laptop, and now my iPAQ.
It's self powered which I like and can power up my cell phone. This model cannot juice up my iPAQ, but this one can SF121:
http://www.arkon.com/sf.html
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As egads pointed out, most of these sound horrible, there's nothing like plugging directly into your receiver. One of my cars has a receiver that has an aux port to directly into the sound system and it sounds a lot better than everything else wireless. IMHO.

[wallisj]

I've got an iRock...originall had the other soundfeeder SF121 but it was useless as it has an analog dial on the front which if moved even 1/10th of a degree introduced static.

The iRock is "ok" but not fabulous...static appears and disappears for no apparant reason and the sound quality isn't brilliant except for speech (which i do admitedly use it most for)

I would like on of the other adamix ones but i don't know if i can justify spending $70 on something i already have

Ta
Jamie